There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route. — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
“Embroidery?" I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause.Lucy,… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
My parents gave me guitar lessons aged five in the hopes I'd go into classical music and do grades, but as soon… — Griff Copy Share Image
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Everything, she wanted to scream at him, was a question of safety. All human endeavor bent itself to the same lost cause.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that… — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
“You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had… — Kristi Strong Copy Share Image
“And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I'll start by taking a step at a time And stop… — Bekka Bramlett Copy Share Image
“In the 1860s the leaders of the cotton belt made one of the most prodigious miscalculations in recorded history. On the eve… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Trying to effect change in others is a lost cause especially if you are unwilling to first change yourself. It’s easier to… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The profilers’ plan to coax me out of the woods resembled a comedy skit. During their search of my Cane Creek trailer,… — Eric Rudolph Copy Share Image
“I know, it looks pure and beautiful to you now, at your great old age of twenty-two. But do you know what… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He led a lost cause, and he was not afraid of God's thunderbolts…hurled into hell, he was unbeaten. A third of God's… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Securing this alliance was only part of it. The other part, the bigger part … was the message. Not to Morath. But… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too… — Hampton Sides Copy Share Image
“Dear Mr. Beard, On the radio last spring, President Roosevelt said that each and every one of us here on the home… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“At the time, I prayed to God only intermittently, and then mainly to ask for things, such as: “Please let me get… — James Martin Copy Share Image
“Giggling, I drifted into a rendition of You’re so Vain by Carly Simon to Lost Cause from Beck, stopping after (I Hate)… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last… — Drew Storen Copy Share Image
“Life isn't worth living if you're not fighting for something. A lost cause is a life mission worthy of pursuit just to… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
..if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The trade union members who formed themselves into militias and chased the Fascists back to Saragossa in the first few weeks of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You wanna talk about stress? And the heart left hangin from a string like a necklace? Im the guy that youve been… — Grieves Copy Share Image
“Unrequited love is the only emotion that allows sane people to taste the “life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“She has no idea how much this means to me. I’ve spent the last year and chance believing myself unfit to be… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“I'm done with the pouting," he said. "Done with being moody—well, I mean, I'm always a little moody. That's what Adrian Ivashkov's… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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